It’s always an inviting scene, the outdoor table area in front of the Oldtown Deli and Cafe. But this was different, and therefore worthy, as the soft sounds of acoustic guitars tugged at a photographer’s curiosity.

“We’re mostly beginners,” explained Robert Garcia, with a smile, as each of the three friends took a riff, expanded it, or went in a different direction.

“This is how we get better,” Edwin Nolasco added, with a tip of his gray porkpie hat.

“Hard to believe it was in the 40s last night,” someone said. Sitting comfortably in the afternoon sun, no one in the group felt like going anywhere soon.